Infotour

A little feedback from the Burian evening the 14th of july. featuring Dubois, a furniture, and hummus!

Party soft

The air was warm in this 14th of July evening, and the inhabitants of the house of resistance, joined with their neighbors from the surrounding villages, as well as the cyclist of the Ecotopia biketour were happily celebrating the last drawbacks of CIGEO and the pleasure of being together.

It’s the ailment caused by the 3856th cop patrol of the day passing by, a recall of the constant intimidation that is the stat of militarization of the territory, that steered the guests to install their table on the bright new roadway facing the house of resistance, to revel and allow the next patrols to try a new routay”. After opposing them a cordial but firm refusal, assuring that the table would be moved to let tractors and combine harvesters (word swiftly and steadily keeped all night long), the party continued in a good mood with a bowling-boules game, as the next patrol skirted the house, causing a few laughs.

The Dubois Cut

Within the framework of their intergalactic music tour aiming to bring the prophetic speech of chocolate ice-cream, Biggy Samourai is coming to the old train station of Luméville-en-Ormois on Sunday ! Come with all your friends and open your fifth eye through the music !

From 7 PM : food and drinks (free price)

At 9 PM : concert

” Amazing ! ” – the avenger owl

” The best way to spend the 23th of July ” – the Saudron’s gazette

” We’ll never see something that irradiates as much in Bure anymore ! ” P-M. A, art critic

Against police pressure, we are calling for people to come in Bure starting now and for the big demo on August 15th!

The poster reads: “the Lejus forest is once against threatened by ANDRA and iIs guard dogs ? Let’s inhabit it and defend it. If they evict us, we’ll evict them!”

For a little while now the police pressure has intensified around Bure. On June 30th, 6 police vans harassed the north and south entrances to the forest. In the south it looked like 30 cops in lines with helmets and shields 100m from the barricade. In the north a line of 10 cops and 2 cops in a bush near the barricade on their knees pointing a flashball at people. They all left around 7pm. Same on July 1st, 4 vans in the south, a line of 15 cops, barricade set on fire. In the villages around random controls, ID checks at the police station, pressure on locals, cops running after people through the fields and arresting them with their guns out (yep, guns)… A new intensity for the typical harrassment strategy since the week of action in June – looks like they’re trying to do even worse than they did last summer.

For a few weeks now 70 cops have been settling inside the laboratory. “We are here to stay and we’ll see each other again soon” did they proudly inform us.

Gerard longuet and his acolytes lick the prime minister’s boots, begging for a new Gendarmerie post in Montiers-sur-Saulx, for once raising th spectre of big bad hooded terrorists harrassing the « local population. Policemen themselves cried, craving for action. This tension strategy, ressembles, first and for most, a psychological operation : it aims to exhaust us and make us slip.

The following is a copy of an open letter published by local associations, locals and opponents to the Bure nuclear dump project.

Since June 21st (and the attack against the hotel/restaurant), the prefecture and various officials supporting CIGEO have tried to raise fear and set the local population against people protesting the nuclear waste disposal project.

In their reports, they allude to a pack of “casseurs” (hooligans) come to devastate the Meuse region, of a “climate of terror”. It is quite typical every time that a struggle starts getting bigger and that the opposition escapes the preestablished official frame of protest – mainly thanks to sabotage or the illegal squatting of a specific space- that politicians begin to try and discredit it and divide opponents.

In the Zad of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the Pays de la Loire regional president, Bruno Retailleau, went as far as comparing the ZAD to « Mossoul or Damas ». In Bure, Gérard Longuet (regional senator), took another step and compared the activists to terrorists by claiming that they were “individuals drawing from images of today’s world violence their gestures of terror”. How far can diffamation and shameful propaganda go?

Officials would rather face a harmless and smiling opposition indeed, one not making any waves, playing along with the “dialogue” game. But our struggle is many faceted, and we refuse to fit the bill and be submitted or fatalistic. After 20 years of petitions, demos, handing leaflets, and legal pleas against the CIGEO project in Bure nothing has been gained except for disdain and scorn.

The fact that places stamped with ANDRA’s aura are targetted by activists or that preparatory works have been stopped for a year now in the Lejus forest is the logical consequence of the deafness of officials as well as their incapacity to question itself for the last 10 years. The government is leaving this situation to rot and provokes the anger that sometimes spontaneously catches fire. There is a real urgency to finally take into account the reality of a struggle that won’t stop showing itself and legitimately raise an alarm about the project’s inherent risks.

There is a gesture to build, another to destroy.

Here in the neighboring villages, nobody can be fooled. Many of us have a different, more accurate vision of what is actually happening on our territory. Politicans reports, such as Mr Longuet’s in his recent grievance letter to the First Minister, look a lot like a desperate last resort to save a project brutally imposed to their region against the wishes of its inhabitants.

For many years now new opponents to the project have joined us and started settling in the South Meuse region, links have been forming, exchanges, solidarity. These opponents are buying houses, renting apartments. There are many projects forming, from gardening to the opening of a bakery, crafts, theater… By occupying the Lejus forest and leading legal recourses, these opponents have also saved one of our last common ressources while it was at risk of being destroyed, fenced and militarized.

This settling dynamic is a humble one, away from the eyes of the media. It is a daily effort, the exact opposite of ANDRA’s strategy of grandly promising thousands of jobs, roads, infrastructures but bringing nothing but a desert instead.

In February the Montiers-sur-Saulx mayor took a stand for the first time against ANDRA, denouncing his village’s slow decline under their rule. The only service that Mr. Longuet ended up offering to (re)open there indeed is a police station. Police and private security guards proudly patrolling renovated but empty streets: such is the only regional development prospect offered by the promoters of the CIGEO project.

Today, the assessment is simple: it is indeed the new opponents who are repopulating our territory, bringing their youth, their joys, their dreams. They have fallen in love with Meuse, when instead the politicians forcing their nuclear dump on us are merely using the territory as an electoral springboard.

We, local inhabitants, local ngos, protesters against CIGEO, want to take a stand and claim loudly that in Bure we do not accept to be divided. There is no good or bad activist, only a growing movement, rich with its diversity, and its will to implement itself and draw another future for our land. There might be a gesture to destroy and another to build, but it is the same hands doing both. Love and rage are but two expressions on the same face.

Saturday July 1st

Cops are back ! At 6pm, 4 vehicles parked at the (ex) antenna a few hundred meters from the forest then started moving towards the South barricade. About 20 cops got out of the trucks in anti riot gear and fully armed. In order to keep them away the south barricade was set on fire.

We faced them for an jour, they were pointing their flashballs at us but didn’t shoot. Just like yesterday, it looks like it could be a rehearsal exercise, maybe to prepare for an eviction.

We are calling for people to start joining us in the forest to make sure we keep enough numbers to keep them off. July is gonna be yet another busy month.

We also call for people to join us on our big demo on August 15th to celebrate the fall of the wall and consolidate the forest occupation.

Friday June 30th

Classic. Every month, we are gifted with our own cops visit. Except that today, there were 50 of them, with flashballs and shields in hand and they weren’t smiling. They mpved towards the first south barricade while in the north about 15 of them searched the North watchtower even though it is set on a private property (a field owned by a friendly farmer).

The police operation started at 5pm and was over around 6:30pm. We are calling for people to remain careful, it looks like they might be training for an eviction. The cops assured us “we’re here to stay and we’ll see you again soo”. We sure know how to expect them.

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30 janvier : advisement of a trial, court of Bar-le-Duc
4 february : works on the Solidarity Cabin in the Bois Lejuc
13 february : Trial of two people for the fall of the wall, 9AM, court of Bar-le-Duc
3 & 4 march : Meeting of all the support committees !
9, 10 & 11 march : week-end of discussions on Kurdistan and communalism
15 & 16 march : two days against all prisons !

Other :
February : Collective works in Dijon to build a cabin for the Bois Lejuc. Call for donations !
10 february : Celebration day on the zad of Notre-Dame-des-Landes !!